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In reply to the discussion: Update on the last country we said we saved [View all]avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)15. There are several excerpts in the article you cited indicating that the
Libyans are Not in fact happy. There circumstances are quite desperate. For example:
Shater was an independent affiliated with the National Forces Alliance (NFA), a party that is largely composed of members of the elite who did not leave Libya and so had to find some form of accommodation with the regime. We were speaking in his home office in Tripoli.
He echoed a common sense of despair about the direction the country is heading. Things are deteriorating. Inflation is going up. Unemployment is getting worse. Health services [are] very, very bad. Education also. So we are going backwards, he said. We will be in this hassle for ten years. We will not be able to build our country in a democratic way, a civil country trying to join the world, he said. Unless some blood will be [spilled] in the streets.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/groundtruth/how-militias-took-control-post-gaddafi-libya
He echoed a common sense of despair about the direction the country is heading. Things are deteriorating. Inflation is going up. Unemployment is getting worse. Health services [are] very, very bad. Education also. So we are going backwards, he said. We will be in this hassle for ten years. We will not be able to build our country in a democratic way, a civil country trying to join the world, he said. Unless some blood will be [spilled] in the streets.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/groundtruth/how-militias-took-control-post-gaddafi-libya
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So the imperialists (particularly the UK and France since Libya's oil went to Europe) wanted Libya
pampango
Sep 2013
#20
Yes, Libya is Syria now. And anyone who believes 'we care about the victims' and who followed what
sabrina 1
Sep 2013
#43
The transition from dictator (or king or tsar) to a more open government is rarely smooth.
pampango
Sep 2013
#17
That's because we promote Capitalism and all those young people rising up are a buncha hippies.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#32
Is your assertion that if we were to assist them in rebuilding Ghadaffi would rise from the dead?
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#42
Things will smooth out after a new dictator emerges from the chaos.
The_Casual_Observer
Sep 2013
#30
Those of us who had doubts about intervention in Libya were smeared as Gaddafi-lovers. Good times.
Starry Messenger
Sep 2013
#35